Dr William Hobbs (1822 – 8 December 1890)[1] was a medical doctor and politician in colonial Queensland.

[2] Hobbs was born in London, England,[1] and was one of the earliest colonists of Queensland, practised as a doctor in Brisbane, and was for a considerable period the Government medical officer.

[2][3] Accompanied by his aged mother, he arrived at Moreton Bay on 1 May 1849 as surgeon of the Chaseley, the second of John Dunmore Lang's migrant ships.

After a brief period at Drayton on the Darling Downs, he commenced practice in Brisbane in September.

[1] He was nominated to the Queensland Legislative Council and was a member of the first responsible government, without portfolio, under the premiership of Robert Herbert, the permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, from April 1861 to January 1862.